S_01 – RESILIENT, CIRCULAR AND SUSTAINABLE CITIES
Balletto Ginevra (University of Cagliari), Ladu Mara (University of Cagliari) Trinh tu Anh (University of Economics Ho Chi Minh), Borruso Giuseppe (University of Trieste), Fancello Gianfranco (University of Cagliari) and Balázs Kulcsár (University of Debrecen)
Cities consume over 75% of natural resources, produce over 50% of global waste and emit between 60 and 80% of greenhouse gases. The scenario that by 2050 two thirds of the world population will live in cities, highlights how cities are still responsible for the growing consumption characterized by linear economic processes, with the production of various types of waste. In this unsustainable framework, the Circular Economy offers the opportunity to shape the urban system by means of rethinking the possibility to produce and use goods and services exploring new ways to ensure long-term prosperity. Resilience and circularity represent two advanced concepts, inserted in the broader one of sustainability. They propose elements of innovation that tend to affect settlement, social and economic processes directing them on new growth paths. In this sense, the most recent exceptions of the term sustainability is less divisive and more accepted by both the economic system and from the social one. The Circular City paradigm contains in fact all the principles of the Circular Economy: recovery, recycling, reuse and sharing. In particular, Circular City also introduces actions related to the development of renewable energy communities, use of green materials and CO2 uptake, increase and diversification of urban accessibility and spatial proximity and digital connectivity (Triple Access Planning). These principles fully fit the objectives of the 2030 agenda. In this framework, this session is proposed to host contributions from those scholars interested in analyzing such phenomena from the different spatial points of view, including, but not limited to, the planning, economical, geographical ones. In accordance with the quests as raised by the current ICT revolution, the attention will be driven also on the role played by the available – and future promising – technologies in addressing such urban issues and propose sustainable solutions.
Keywords:
Resilient city; circular city; sustainable city; proximity city; Triple Access Planning.